1) Yes, tags will be copied to mp3 files. But I suggets you do a test and see if it works as you expected. Also note that artwork cannot be copied at the moment.2) TAC does not have that feature yet I'm afraid.

What I'm trying to do is convert a mix of flac and mpc to mp3 for portable use. I would like to duplicate everything (art in folder, txt files, etc) to the identical directory structure but not have to manually delete the (original) source files in the new directory. I know that might not make sense...

None of my business, but I would strongly advise against deleting your lossless source files. Once you convert to a lossy format, you're basically stuck with that format forever (converting one lossy format to another loses even more audio information). If you must delete them, make sure you delete to a large Recycle Bin in case you make a mistake and need to re-do the conversion.

I won't being deleting my archive FLAC's. I've collected those over many years and ripping sessions. Unfortunately they now sit on DVD+R's. They WILL resurface on hard disk soon once I have the time to copy them all over to 3 or 4 TB drives (in duplicate). What I'm attempting to do now is copy my music to a 1 TB 2.5" drive that will be housed in my car and read by a unit that only plays back mp3, wma and aac.

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1) Yes, tags will be copied to mp3 files. But I suggets you do a test and see if it works as you expected. Also note that artwork cannot be copied at the moment.2) TAC does not have that feature yet I'm afraid.

Thanks! I'm hoping to test it out this weekend. I'm still debating if I should copy the directory structure, convert and re-add artwork or copy the entire source, convert to the existing directory and then recursively delete mpc and flac...

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--0.7.2-Added: option to extract embedded artworks to output folder (jpg, png) (thx to gottkaiser)-Added: A better command creation algorithm-Added: Info balloon will now show encoding time and speed-Added: More skins-Added: Some shortcuts (del, shift+del etc)-Added: Option to select between extensions for aac output (thx to kokuyo)-Added: Support for m4b and aac files-Fixed: Adding files with shell content menu will be disabled while encoding-Fixed: Could not write tags to TAK files (thx to jkauff)-Fixed: Change log could not be viewed with installer version

--0.7.2-Added: option to extract embedded artworks to output folder (jpg, png) (thx to gottkaiser)-Added: A better command creation algorithm-Added: Info balloon will now show encoding time and speed-Added: More skins-Added: Some shortcuts (del, shift+del etc)-Added: Option to select between extensions for aac output (thx to kokuyo)-Added: Support for m4b and aac files-Fixed: Adding files with shell content menu will be disabled while encoding-Fixed: Could not write tags to TAK files (thx to jkauff)-Fixed: Change log could not be viewed with installer version

Yes, I know. But until I find a way to embed artwork to output file, this is the solution I could find.

Also if you guys get "Invalid floating point operation" after updating to 0.7.2, you can go to settings window and uncheck "Extract and save artwork to output" checkbox. It looks like there is a bug with MediaInfo.

@ozok,how do you think about implementing ReplayGain into TAudioConverter?So if your (lossless) files have ReplayGain tags, you could select to use either track or album gain information, apply corresponding attenuation (via SoX or encoder command line) + apply addional gain (eg. if you want your mp3s @ 92dB reference level instead of standard 89dB) and thus have your target files all at the same loudness level, regardless if your player can't handle RG tags.

Possible to add support for splitting audio files with attached cuesheets?

Yes, this is in my to-do list. I do not know when, but I will add support for cuesheets.

QUOTE (sundance @ Jan 15 2013, 16:05)

@ozok,how do you think about implementing ReplayGain into TAudioConverter?So if your (lossless) files have ReplayGain tags, you could select to use either track or album gain information, apply corresponding attenuation (via SoX or encoder command line) + apply addional gain (eg. if you want your mp3s @ 92dB reference level instead of standard 89dB) and thus have your target files all at the same loudness level, regardless if your player can't handle RG tags.

.sundance.

I actually do not know much about replay gain. I think adding both keeping just in tag and applying replay gain with SoX sounds like a good idea. Added this to my to-do list.

Just tried your portable version on Win 7 Ultimate x64. Tried to add both a folder of, and individual TAK files. Program wouldn't recognise them / allow me to add. Can the program not decode TAK files?

Also, on a seperate note -- would be really good if you could include lossyWAV.

Looks like a promising program. Personally I use fb2k, but when this is done I'll definitely recommend TAC to friends who don't want to dig into fb2k. I like that there's a portable version too.

EDIT. Well, I just encoded a TAK file to Opus which resulted in a 360 byte .opus file which foobar2000 said was a corrupted format.

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Decoding failure at 0:00.000 (Unsupported format or corrupted file)

A couple of suggestions too:

EDIT 2 --- 1) It doesn't seem to remember the last directories chosen (input and output -- may be wrong about that?) sorry!2) Haven't been able to drag and drop files (it would be nice if it supported that)

It's going to be good. I like the interface. I like that it's portable. I'd like LossyWav support (that would also help set it apart from the competition ). EDIT: I also like that it maintains directory structure (if you want it to). Agree with posting above re. ReplayGain support would be nice.